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Just another Nichelabs websiteMon, 21 Jan 2019 21:52:31 +0000en-UShourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.9Opossums Used To Celebrate the New Year in Georgiahttps://bugbustersusa.com/2019/01/04/opossums-used-to-celebrate-the-new-year-in-georgia/
Fri, 04 Jan 2019 17:07:47 +0000http://bugbustersusa.com/?p=44795Everyone is familiar with the New Year’s tradition of watching the ball drop in Times Square in New York City at the stroke of midnight, after which you are supposed to kiss someone to bring in the new year. We humans have been celebrating the new year for at least 4,000 years according to historians.…

]]>Everyone is familiar with the New Year’s tradition of watching the ball drop in Times Square in New York City at the stroke of midnight, after which you are supposed to kiss someone to bring in the new year. We humans have been celebrating the new year for at least 4,000 years according to historians. The exact date when this is celebrate has changed a few times over time, but it has pretty much always involved a party. This party, however, does not always include the same traditions. The New Year’s ball drop and subsequent kiss is certainly not the only way people choose to bring in the new year. One interesting tradition even involved opossums.

The North Carolina and Georgia town of Tallapoosa added opossums to their New Year celebrations. The origins of this tradition are linked to the original name of the town, Possum Snout. Tallapoosa began using opossums in their New Year celebration after a resident taxidermist happened to come across a dead opossum on the side of the road one day shortly before New Years. Being a taxidermist, he decided to stuff the opossum. He was then somehow able to get the rest of the town to go along with using this stuffed opossum in their New Year celebration. The opossum, which is named Spencer for some unknown reason, is used in a similar fashion to the giant ball in Times Square. At the stroke of midnight Spencer the stuffed opossum is lowered from a tall building. This tradition is known by locals as the opossum drop. I guess you have to use what you have available when you don’t have a giant glittering ball to lower at midnight.

This is not even the strangest New Year celebration. Other animals and unusual items have been used to mark the new year. In Wisconsin a carp is dropped at midnight. In North Carolina they traditionally drop a pickle, and even a big slab of bologna is used in Philadelphia to mark the new year.

Do you know of other strange New Year traditions that are practiced around the country or world?

]]>State Wildlife Officials Captured Photos Of A Two Foot Tall Squirrelhttps://bugbustersusa.com/2018/12/04/state-wildlife-officials-captured-photos-of-a-two-foot-tall-squirrel/
Tue, 04 Dec 2018 17:29:14 +0000http://bugbustersusa.com/?p=44762Humans are no strangers to squirrels, as human and squirrel habitats largely overlap. This means that just about every American has spotted wild squirrels more times than can be counted. So, if anyone claimed to have spotted a two foot tall squirrel in the wild, any American would certainly dismiss such a claim as pure…

]]>Humans are no strangers to squirrels, as human and squirrel habitats largely overlap. This means that just about every American has spotted wild squirrels more times than can be counted. So, if anyone claimed to have spotted a two foot tall squirrel in the wild, any American would certainly dismiss such a claim as pure fiction. However, state wildlife officials in North Carolina have recently spotted a two foot tall squirrel, and they even posted photographic evidence online to back up this claim.

The photos that recently surfaced on Facebook showing a squirrel that is estimated to be 26 inches in length has many people in disbelief. However, the animal in the photos is not a typical squirrel; instead, the animal is a rarely seen fox squirrel that is known for being at least twice the size of the more abundant grey squirrel species that is often spotted in urban areas of North Carolina. Unlike common squirrels, fox squirrels only dwell within regions that are not inhabited by humans. Fox squirrels in North Carolina dwell within the dense pine forests located in the southeastern portion of the state. Fox squirrels are almost never spotted by humans, but occasional sightings have been documented in the state’s sandhills and Coastal Plain.

Fox squirrels are so rare, that even biologists are largely ignorant of their natural behaviors and native habitat distribution within North America. In fact, hunters have had more exposure to the animals than researchers. However, this is beginning to change, as biologists are now beginning to understand this animal’s cryptic nature through a recently implemented camera-trap program. This program sees hundreds of cameras capturing footage of fox squirrels within the most remote areas of all of North Carolina’s 100 counties. The fox squirrel is a solitary animal that is not known for biting humans.

]]>Squirrel Killings Have Residents Of One Connecticut Neighborhood Mystified And Disturbedhttps://bugbustersusa.com/2018/10/29/squirrel-killings-have-residents-of-one-connecticut-neighborhood-mystified-and-disturbed/
Mon, 29 Oct 2018 16:53:05 +0000http://bugbustersusa.com/?p=44725During the month of October, shortly before Halloween arrives, it becomes acceptable for people to indulge their darker curiosities. At any other time of the year, watching documentaries about Jack the Ripper or “the real life Hannibal Lecter” may strike your friends and family as strange, to say the least. However, Halloween allows people to…

]]>During the month of October, shortly before Halloween arrives, it becomes acceptable for people to indulge their darker curiosities. At any other time of the year, watching documentaries about Jack the Ripper or “the real life Hannibal Lecter” may strike your friends and family as strange, to say the least. However, Halloween allows people to explore even the most horrifying aspects of human nature, without the social ostracism that a person would inevitably experience if such inquiries were made during Christmas or Easter. Then again, one recent event may be too macabre even for the most spirited of Halloween enthusiasts. This event concerns a number of mutilated squirrel corpses that residents of one Connecticut neighborhood have been finding outside of their homes for weeks.

The town of Waterbury has been plagued by the antisocial actions of one, or several individuals who do not seem to like squirrels. For the past few weeks, residents of one particular neighborhood in the town have been waking in the morning to discover severed squirrels tails dumped in front of their homes. So far, 19 tails have been found neatly placed in the street in front of multiple homes, and nobody knows how they got there or who has been planting them. As you can imagine, this disturbing discovery has prompted several theories among the residents concerning the motives for the squirrel mutilations. For example, one resident, Javana Bernard, believes that a cult or a black magic ritual of some kind may be the reason for the severed squirrel tails. Erika Dibble, Bernard’s neighbor, has a similar theory, only she has been considering voodoo rituals as a reason for the mutilations.

The first sighting of mutilated squirrels occured three weeks ago, and those instances had the tails placed in more elaborate patterns than the ones being spotted more recently. Unfortunately, the local police department will not be investigating the matter, as squirrel hunting is not illegal in the area. Hopefully, the perpetrators behind this undeniably sick act will not cause any more disturbances in the area once Halloween has passed.

Do you believe that the lives of wild animals are not considered as sacred as they should be by most people?